thread: 2005-06-16 : The Forge and Me
On 2005-06-21, Paul Czege wrote:
"Find something better, and I know I'd be there."Me too. But...be careful of buying a solution (something an evangelist or community of evangelists is selling) without an analysis of what you want to achieve. You don't want to jump right to solution without an analysis of the needed features (relative to current features). It's easy to get geeked about what Everything offers, for instance, or what PhpWiki offers, especially when confronted by a dedicated evangelist, but the reality is that all online communities struggle with the social equivalent of the second law of thermodynamics (they make mud, and they lose energy); if there were an off-the-shelf software solution, it would be the most significant and revolutionary piece of software architecture of our lives. So...you may have to build something from parts. And you can't do that without a prioritized list of needed features.
